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Why tech’s favorite color is making us all miserable (2018)

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38 pointsdmitriid14 comments

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17440374.

I think all cars should have red interior lights as a matter of safety. It makes me angry whenever I rent a car and it has blue lights everywhere inside at night.

It may be a Sonata or something that has a blue light on all the time just above the rear view mirror! I had to cover it with tape.

Honda Accord too between 2012 and 2017 MYs (don't know about after the '18 redesign), except the Sport trim which has red.

Fortunately, on all trims you can freely switch the infotainment screen BG color between red, green, and blue.

The dashboard lighting in my Mini Cooper turns red/orange when it gets dark outside, and I set the accent lighting color to orange. I think it helps a lot.

An article about using red/orange for display lighting at night, written by ... "Amber Case" !

What's your point?

nominative determinism perhaps? It is rather funny.

Hah, missed that completely!

I use xgamma -bgamma .6 and xgamma -ggamma .8 in linux

I use `redshift -O 3600`

sct 3500, at night.

sct 5500, in the morning.

Last I heard there isn't strong scientific proof blue light is bad for you. I mean if you go outside at night the moon looks awfully close in color to a phone screen...

Affects circadian rhythms, damages retinas: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4734149/

Evening use of LED screens alters circadian rhythms and has a detrimental effect on cognitive performance: https://www.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysiol.001...

You can find more. Wikipedia has 40 citations here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_blue_light_technolo...

Your counterpoint is irrelevant. Non-artificiality isn't a guarantee of benefit: if you go outside in the daytime and look at the sun you'll go blind.

moonlight is not blue. see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purkinje_effect

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